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Silvia Bastow
Jan 1, 20215 min read
Translation – tangled, rock climbing, bubble, mosaic, ping-pong….
My students don’t actually realise that I teach them a ‘foreign’ language through a ‘foreign’ language. As I am not English, speak with...
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Silvia Bastow
Dec 14, 20202 min read
Achieving grade 9 in the 150 word extended writing task
Following the amazing response to my post on ‘Preparing students for GCSE extended writing task’ (the post had almost 900 views on the...
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Silvia Bastow
Dec 9, 20204 min read
Preparing students for GCSE extended writing task
On this post I will be focussing on how I am preparing my students for their writing skill; on development of broad linguistic knowledge,...
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